Novelist Jennifer Egan and writer/musician Jacob Slichter will explore structural parallels between writing and music and their relevance for writers.
Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection. Her 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, a New York Times bestseller, was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was chosen as New York City’s One Book One New York read. Her previous novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times book prize, and was recently named one of the best books of the decade by Time Magazine and Entertainment Weekly. Also a journalist, she has written frequently in the New York Times Magazine, and she recently completed a term as President of PEN America. Her new novel, The Candy House, a sibling to A Visit From the Goon Squad, was published in April, 2022.
Jacob Slichter is the author of So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star (Broadway Books, 2004) and the drummer for the band Semisonic. He has written for The New York Times, has been a commentator for NPR’s Morning Edition, and currently teaches creative nonfiction at Sarah Lawrence College. He also blogs about connections between music, writing, and other art forms at portablephilosophy.com.